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Superconductor
Resists Magnetic Fields
By Richard Ball -- Electronics Weekly, 7/6/2004
Researchers
in the U.S. have repeated work on magnesium diboride superconductors
that shows how doping with carbon doubles its resistance to
magnetic fields.
The Ames
Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy added 5 percent
carbon to MgB2, and increased the magnetic field limit, the
Hc2 at 0K, from 16 Tesla to 36 Tesla. Critical temperature
dropped slightly from 39K to 35K. [Go
to article] |
From the issue dated February 20,
2004
Separation
Anxieties
As the Energy Department puts lab contracts up for
bid,
Iowa State U. has a good chance of keeping its facility
By ANNE MARIE BORREGO
An aerial
view of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory looks
a lot like a view of a university campus -- the Iowa State
University campus, to be precise. That's because the lab's
buildings are interspersed among the buildings, parking lots,
and roads of the university, which has managed the lab since
1947. [Go to
article] |
January
27, 2004
Energy
to open more nuclear lab contracts to competition
By Amelia
Gruber
agruber@govexec.com
The Energy
Department plans to place four more nuclear facility management
contracts up for bids, officials announced Tuesday.
As required
by a fiscal 2004 budget measure enacted last month (H.R. 2754),
Energy will open contracts to run Ames, Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley
and Lawrence Livermore laboratories to competition. The department
has already said it will place the University of California's
contract to operate Los Alamos National Laboratory up for bids
once that agreement expires in 2005. [Complete
article] |
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